The Fall of Bataan, the New Mexico National Guard, and The National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day—April 9, 2008
Posted in History on Apr 9th, 2008
The title is too long, but every word is important. Hopelessly outnumbered by the largest enemy military force in American history and facing certain slaughter, on April 9, 1942, Major Gen. Edward P. King surrendered himself, and the men he commanded—Filipino and American troops—to the Japanese who had overtaken the Philippine Islands. Most of the [...]
